Software engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years building and shipping production systems. I design and deliver cloud-native, event-driven backends, and lead the platform / DevOps work and teams that keep them reliable — including in regulated fintech environments.
- Backend & APIs — TypeScript / Node.js (NestJS, Fastify, Express), REST · GraphQL · WebSockets, microservices & event-driven architecture
- Cloud & DevOps — AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3), Kubernetes, Docker, IaC (Pulumi, Serverless Framework), CI/CD
- Observability — CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Grafana
- Leadership — led engineering & DevOps functions, mentored teams of up to 16 engineers, and taken teams through real technical transitions
- Delivered cloud-native, event-driven systems in regulated environments (NatWest / RoosterMoney, Fiinu)
- Led platform and DevOps work across multiple teams
- 10+ years across SaaS, fintech and telecom
A few recent builds — full write-ups (problem → approach → result) at afareed.com/work:
- Alfred — multi-agent orchestration framework — routes multi-step work across ~45 specialised agents with a coordinator, parallel execution and independent review gates between stages; designed to run largely unattended.
- Secrets-vault MCP server — a custom Model Context Protocol server (TypeScript) that brokers vault-stored secrets to agents with per-caller scoping, rate-limiting and full audit; runs in production behind TLS.
- LLM automation (n8n) — production pipelines with confidence thresholds, human-review queues and alerting that take recurring manual work off a team's plate.
- AI review aggregator — a shipped product built on the multi-agent framework + AWS Bedrock that turns scattered, noisy reviews into structured, decision-ready insight.
Backend TypeScript · Node.js · NestJS · Fastify · Express · REST · GraphQL · WebSockets
Cloud / AWS EKS · ECS · Lambda · API Gateway · DynamoDB · S3 · EC2
DevOps Kubernetes · Docker · Pulumi · Serverless Framework · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI
Observability CloudWatch · X-Ray · Prometheus · Grafana
Data PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · DynamoDB
Frontend Vue.js · Nuxt.js · Svelte
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ahmed-afareed
Email: afareed92@gmail.com
Website: afareed.com